Kingdoms version

[Arcana]

Oh wow, I wouldn't know where to begin =/

I would imagine that all three states would maintain Islamic style units (crap spam infantry, perhaps with a decent scimitar-armed inf unit for Persia and India, as well as HA, Jav-Cav), since it was Muslims who held sway over all three dominions at the time. Perhaps the greatest variation coming in India given the hotchpotch of cultural and religious influences there. Also, they would have war elephants (they had used them not long before the Sultanate dynasties of 1200 onward, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't still maintain them) and maybe even hand-bomb throwers. I would imagine India to have better heavy infantry (swordsmen mainly) than its neighbours, since they had higher-quality steel swords than most neighbours and even some western armies.

In 1500, massive influence from the Ottomans would surely mean that they lost a bit of that earlier diversity and became even more Islamicised?

This is an interesting new direction (no pun intended) you're taking this mod...will the inclusion of Persian factions mean that you'll have to cut back on factions in Europe?